Oxystele tabularis Krauss 1848

Oxystele tabularis (Krauss, 1848) Trochus (Oxystele) tabularis Krauss, 1848: 97, pl. 5, fig. 30. Type loc.: ‘ in sinu tabulari ’[Table Bay], erroneous; nine syntypes in SMNH (49610) (Herbert & Warén 1988). Monodonta (Oxystele) tabularis — Troschel, 1879: 230, pl. 23, fig. 2 (radula). Moura, 1970: 64, pl. 2, fig. 3. Oxystele tabularis — Barnard, 1963 a: 269. Kennelly, 1964: 54, pl. 4, fig. 22. Day, 1969: 160. Kensley, 1973: 40, fig. 91. Richards, 1981: 36, pl. 9, fig. 69. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 42, pl. 9, fig. 2. Branch, 1984: 15. Branch et al., 2010: 176, fig. 77.5. Diloma tabularis —Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 24, fig. 77. Not Monodonta (Oxystele) tabularis — Moura, 1968: 26, pl. 4, fig. 3. [= Priotrochus obscurus (Wood, 1828)] Distribution. Southern Mozambique (Inhambane) to E. Cape (Port Alfred), extending further west during warm water anomalies (Branch 1984); intertidal.Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 4049 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24536